The Fuel Retailers Association questioned why oil companies had not made alternate fuel delivery plans ahead of a nationwide chemical workers strike, as pumps continued to run dry on Friday. ”Why didn’t they arrange by Monday [the start of the strike] to have these drivers ready?” said association CEO Peter Morgan.
The JSE was in positive territory at midday on Friday, trading 169 points in the black. The resource index was driving the market after Anglo American released good results on Friday. At 12.06pm, the JSE all-share index had gained 0,61%, with the resources adding 1,09% and platinum climbing 0,77%.
There is little that is new in government’s newly released industrial policy framework, says the Democratic Alliance (DA). ”The policy is low on measurable outcomes, and nowhere speaks to the important Millennium Development Goals of halving unemployment by 2014,” DA trade and industry spokesperson Pierre Rabie said in a statement on Friday.
Libya has reached a multimillion-dollar deal to buy anti-tank missiles and radio systems from European aerospace giant EADS in what would be the first such purchase since an arms embargo was lifted on Tripoli in 2004. French Defence Minister Herve Morin confirmed on Friday that a letter of intent had been signed.
The United Nations General Assembly’s first session devoted exclusively to climate change closed with nations worried about the devastating impact of global warming now and on future generations, although few countries altered their well-known positions.
I didn’t watch Alberto Contador putting on the final yellow jersey of this year’s Tour de France in Paris. As I said, even before the disaster unfolded, this wasn’t a Tour where I was going to get worked up about who won. By Sunday I had gone beyond indifference into mild animosity. To date, there is no evidence against Contador.
There was little doubt among the hundreds of thousands of revellers who poured defiantly on to the streets of Iraq last Sunday that in winning the Asia Cup in Jakarta, the ”lions of Mesopotamia”, as the national football team is known, had given the country its most important, and perhaps most profound, sporting achievement.
It’s quiet at the Mini Care Centre for Abused Children, save for a few older kids knocking around in the backyard. Besides those taking time out from studying for exams, all the residents are at school. The children here and others like them at the Hillbrow-Berea Home of Hope will probably be indifferent to a football tournament happening in Mmabatho on Saturday.
Government’s bid to speedily provide affordable broadband services which could be drawn into a possible legal battle suggests its conceptualisation may have been bungled from the start. At the root of the legal mess is Public Enterprise minister Alec Erwin’s decision to from a state owned broadband company, Infraco.
A 94-year-old Australian great-great-grandmother has become the oldest person in the world to earn a master’s degree, local media reported on Thursday. Phyliss Turner, described by one of her sons as having "an amazing brain," took her master’s in medical science at the University of Adelaide in South Australia.